JoshWillway123
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So, I recently bought myself a HP Stream in the lowest config for college. It was £140, or about 180 USD. It's been my main laptop since that, I have a desktop for more horsepower if need be and when I'm out I'm not going to be doing anything intense. I got the Aqua blue colour with the latest CPU, a Celeron N3060. My experience with it thus far, What I'm using it for now, which is mainly word documents, YouTube and Spotify it performs adequately. One thing I was pleasantly surprised with was the keyboard, this thing is hands down one of the best keyboards I've used. Its feel and size make for a great typing experience. The screen is about what you can expect for the price, its not god awful but its not 4k IPS, the viewing angles in the vertical sense are shoddy, albeit in the horizontal they are okay, you won't have to be dead on centre to view the screen but you wont want to be too far off.
The performance whilst browsing the internet is decent, when just browsing the web it will be fast enough, not blisteringly fast albeit fast enough. The limited ram may slow down on some bigger sites like news sites like the BBC and WSJ but for watching YouTube it's a good enough experience as long as the screen doesn't annoy you.
Doing anything more taxing on the system may be easy to achieve given its specifications but most games from the windows store should run without a hitch, things like Minecraft- Windows 10 Edition from the store will run fine but if you're into Minecraft I wouldn't recommend the full version as the system likely can't handle it.
My experience with this, albeit limited is good overall and I don't think it deserves all of the flak it gets for being 'slow and unreliable'
The performance whilst browsing the internet is decent, when just browsing the web it will be fast enough, not blisteringly fast albeit fast enough. The limited ram may slow down on some bigger sites like news sites like the BBC and WSJ but for watching YouTube it's a good enough experience as long as the screen doesn't annoy you.
Doing anything more taxing on the system may be easy to achieve given its specifications but most games from the windows store should run without a hitch, things like Minecraft- Windows 10 Edition from the store will run fine but if you're into Minecraft I wouldn't recommend the full version as the system likely can't handle it.
My experience with this, albeit limited is good overall and I don't think it deserves all of the flak it gets for being 'slow and unreliable'